51 that I remember well, and a few more that I think I read for school (like Moby Dick) but don’t recall with any detail.
I’ve read 60 of these, abandoned a handful of others, and read some of them so long ago that I’ve forgotten their basic plots.
I read most of these (at least the ones that were released by the 1990s) by the 8th/9th grade and then pretty much stopped.
Man, The Great American Read has a LOT of British novels in it for some reason. And some of them I’d challenge on that basis.
All love for Narnia but those seven books are REALLY British.
Also, Ready Player One? That invalidates the entire exercise right there. It’s not a terrible book - I enjoyed it - but to consider it a Great American Read is foolish.
I skimmed and counted 47, but maybe seven or eight authors I’ve read a different book of theirs. A handful of favorites but a lot of these books are real crap, too. Some I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole, some I read as a kid (when I turned nothing down) and feel rather soiled remembering the experience.
Stuff I would re-read in there includes Tolkien, Tolstoy, Austen, Heller, Atwood, a few others. Very few I haven’t read that I want to – Cervantes is one.
Where’s Mark Twain, I wonder? Did I miss him?
I can only assume they’re “books that Americans read,” not “American books.” Obviously there are quite a few non-American books on the list.
I’ve read 43.
My favorites, that I cherish and re-read are:
Jane Eyre
Moby Dick
Rebecca
The Martian
Most of the others I think are great books. The only ones I really didn’t like were Catch-22 and The Alchemist.
- 1984
- A Separate Peace
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Tom Sawyer
- Alice in Wonderland
- And Then There Were None
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Call of the Wild
- Catch-22
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Charlotte’s Web
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Color Purple
- Crime and Punishment
- Don Quixote
- Gone Girl
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Great Gatsby
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Heart of Darkness
- Invisible Man
- Jane Eyre
- Little Women
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Moby Dick
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Pride and Prejudice
- Rebecca
32, Siddhartha - The Sun Also Rises
- Tales of the City
- The Alchemist
- The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Little Prince
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Martian
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- War and Peace
- Wuthering Heights
Tom Sawyer is on the list.
- My favorites were “A Prayer for Owen Meany”, “The Stand” and “The Joy Luck Club”. There are a few I started but didn’t finish e.g. Twilight. I thought I’d see what all the fuss was about but couldn’t get into it. I didn’t even try with 50 Shades, I heard it was excruciatingly poorly written. I am not a book snob, I like a lot of popular stuff. Not romances, but as examples from the list, Dean Koontz and Robert McCammon really know what they’re doing, in addition to of course the aforementioned King. Pretty weird list but lots of great reads on there. It has given me some ideas for some books to add to my list.
all fiction. don’t read fiction. read six in high school English though. I usually read about two or three books a week but only two works of fiction since 1976.
List not available in my country 
I’ve read 23 of the list, counting Harry Potter and Narnia as a series like they did.
I’d vote for:
Dune
1984
The Giver
37
So far I’ve just voted once, for my all-time favorite among those mentioned, Anne of Green Gables. Of the books I’ve read as an adult, I’d choose The Martian.
- Interestingly, some of the ones I’ve read are the garbage-est. (Looking at you, Left Behind.)
It’s a weird-ass list, but I guess it’s supposed to be America’s “most beloved” books. Couldn’t find out how that was determined.
Was really happy and shocked to see *The Intuitionist *on the list. A great book, but weird, and I didn’t think it was well-known, let alone beloved. Good for you, America.
The fact that Fifty Shades of Grey is on the list makes me question the contest. I’ve read slightly over half the books on the list. There are a number of great books that are missing. My vote goes to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which I think a lot of people could use to read now to discover the values expressed in it (IMO, keep in mind). It’s a fabulous read and one I try to repeat every few years.
There’s a link that explains how the 100 books were chosen.
Some of the books on the list (including Fifty Shades) strike me as the kind of books that lots of people have read even though they don’t normally read novels, so that a lot of people are going to choose them as “most-loved novel” almost by default.
“Sorry, voting is not available in your region”
And consequently, the list is hidden.
Bah. Humbug.
I have to agree with the numerous comments about the strangeness of that list. I remember Dan Brown being cited somewhere for comically inept writing, and the supporting evidence was a selection of passages from The Da Vinci Code (which I haven’t read, but judging from the quoted excerpts, I have to agree). Fifty Shades of Grey doesn’t even require a comment. I had a quick look at the selection criteria and the major factor appears to have been a popularity poll, which kind of explains a lot.
From a quick glance at the list I think I’ve read about a dozen of them. Like some other posters here, I mostly read non-fiction.
I’ve read 62 and given up on 3. There’s a lot of treacle on that list.
Treacle - I guess I don’t read enough because I had to look that one up. Also, I used to take some sort of pride in saying that I never read fiction but that was way back in high school. College forced me into reading fiction and I’m glad it did. I’d say my reading is evenly split fiction/non-fiction.